On Dec 13, 2007 1:50 PM, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to boot LinuxBIOS using qemu with VGA support. I have got > > both V2 & V3 to boot with a FILO payload and the linux test disk image > > from QEMU website using the -nographic option. > > > > I can boot the disk image using qemu and the bios & vgabios it came with. > > > > I cannot get it to come up with either V2 or V3. I have tried copying > > the vgabios.bin image to a local directory and then booting qemu with > > the -L ./ option. I see the initial QEMu messages a blank screen > > appears that looks like the VGA output and then it goes down to a small > > block on the screen. > > > > I have compiled V3 with x86emu support. Under V2 I could not figure > > out how to get it to compile with VGA support. > > Under v2 I just used the default config in buildrom and made sure that the > ROM file from LinuxBIOS and the vgabios*.bin files were in the same > directory. It hangs during the boot, but not because of the VGA. I'm > looking into it more. > > For v3 I get the same thing you do. > > I started qemu with "-L BIOS_DIR hd.img" > > Myles
My v2 hang seems to be the choice of Linux kernel for LAB and a qemu bug. I used filo as the payload for testing, a blank hard drive so nothing loads. Under v2 it executes the vga ROM and initializes correctly. Under v3 it doesn't seem to execute the ROM. I changed the default configuration to try using MULTIPLE_VGA_INIT, and using x86emu and vm86, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I'm attaching the serial log of my boot. Maybe I just don't see where it's being executed and there's another problem? Myles
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